New Car Dealers Donate Over 3,000 Winter Coats For Needy New
Yorkers

NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2014 -- The Greater New York Automobile Dealers
Association (GNYADA) and its franchised new car dealer members have joined
forces with New York Cares to collect and distribute more than 3,000 winter
coats. Two trucks were needed to deliver the coats to New York Cares main
collection point in midtown Manhattan today. The coats were collected by
the Association and auto dealers across metro New York. GNYADA represents
over 400 franchised community-based new car retailers whose philanthropic
activities help support hospitals, schools, little leagues, and good causes
throughout metro New York all year round.

The auto dealers surpassed their original goal of collecting 500 coats
by a whopping 500%, making it the largest donation by a single organization
to the New York Cares Coat Drive to date. A request by GNYADA to its
members to help New York Cares support thousands of New Yorkers who will be
forced to make a choice this winter between buying a warm coat and putting
food on the table, heating their homes, or meeting other basic survival
needs, was met with an immediate call to action by dealers. For the last 24
years, New York Cares has collected and distributed winter coats to
thousands of men, women and children who would otherwise go cold.

"When we put out the call to our members to take part in this important
initiative we had an overwhelming response from auto dealers, including one
who donated 200 new coats to the cause," said GNYADA president Mark
Schienberg.

"This is a great example of the community-based charitable activities
that automobile dealers are known for and we are very proud to help New
York Cares in their dedication to helping our areas neediest citizens," he
continued.

"To see 3,000 coats rolling into the Coat Drive warehouse this morning
was a wonderful sight," said Gary Bagley, Executive Director of New York
Cares. "We haven't yet collected half of the more than 100,000 requests for
winter coats we've received, so we are especially grateful to the GNYADA
and its members for such an enormous donation in these final weeks of the
drive."

About GNYADA: The Greater New York Automobile Dealers Association
represents over 400 franchised automobile dealerships in the metro area of
New York, selling more than 429,000 new and used cars each year.
Collectively, they inject $27.1 billion into the economy and generate $1.83
billion in tax revenue for New York while helping to sustain a workforce of
nearly 58,000 directly and indirectly. A third of these jobs are in the
high-paying service department. GNYADA also operates the Center for
Automotive Education & Training and organizes the New York International
Automobile Show -- the largest auto show in North America -- each spring in
Manhattan's Jacob Javits Convention Center.